***Official painted/powder coated stockers thread***

[Ed@TunerStore]

Love the dark painted Enkei's:good:

 

[forevame]

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[la_fx35]

They look dark in person. Here is couple pics:

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Zebra & Oscar, your wheels looks way too nice for the winter

 

[Ed@TunerStore]

Oscars winter set up is crazy, mine it's just "blah" compare to his)))


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[MTN FX]

Finished painting my wheels took a few pics along the way......
The whole project cost about $65.00. 5 cans rustolium high performance wheel graphite paint, 4 cans rustolium clear wheel paint, 2 cans rustolium primer.

1) Removed all the old balancing weights and scrubbed the wheels with extra fine 0000 steel wool and dish soap.

2) Wet sanded wheels with some 400 grit sandpaper.

3) Wiped down wheels with mineral spirits and masked off hub surface and lug holes.



4) Sprayed primer on wheels and center caps.



5) Dry sanded primer with 0000 steel wool (too cold out to wet sand ).

6) Painted wheels and center caps.


7) Clear Coated wheels and center caps.






I am really happy with how they came out I don't think anyone will be able to tell this was a spray paint job.
Like the color it was exactly what I wanted. Will add a couple of pics after I get my new set of Yokohama Geolander AT/S tires mounted and on the FX. Thinking of waiting at least a week with the rims curing in the garage in front of a heater to fully harden paint before mounting. Might have to do some touch up if tire shop scrapes them during mounting.

 

[aiya]

Wow! I love seeing a successful DIY completed! Great job! :congrats:

 

[Ed@TunerStore]

Congrats looking good!


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[MTN FX]

Congrats looking good!


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Thanks for the color suggestion just how I wanted them to look!

 

[sir21]

Looks great mtn

 

[jdTrader]

looks awesome! I bet it feels great to have done it all yourself!

 

[la_fx35]

Wow looks awesome. Good job :good:

 

[tchuck]

Great work!

SfmDRuT2

 

[ocal21]

That looks real good.

 

[GEE50FX]

Excellent job at refinishing the wheels , they look great.

 

[MTN FX]

So I dropped off my winter set of wheels that I just painted at the tire shop to get the new tires mounted and balanced this morning. I told them that they could take their time and that I had just painted them and didn't want them to get scratched up.
So I get a call this afternoon and they tell me that three of the tires were mounted with no issues and when they were balancing the last wheel the hub nut that holds the wheel on the balancing machine came loose and every spoke of the wheel was scratched with deep gouges into my new paint job AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
At least they said there would be no charge for the mounting and balancing.
So I just finished sanding the damaged areas and repainted and re clear coated the wheel.

 

[la_fx35]

That sucks, imagine if the wheel was brand new. Nice job on get it repainted.

 

[movado750]

love the 50 wheels.

 

[amonteblan]

WOW! THAT LOOKS GREAT!!!! I'm in Queens. I would like to do this to my stock rims. Can you PM me?????

---------- Post added at 05:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:12 PM ----------

Had elite coatings here on the forum powdercoat them. I pinstriped the wheels myself. Bought red pinstriping online.


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Elite coatings? Great. Are they located in Brooklyn? I'm in Queens

 

[Bklynjohn718]

Forget elite. They suck. Go to intrack tires. They do better work. They are located in queens. Google them up.

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[IridiumFX]

Did you have a bad experience with Elite? Spoke on the phone with them the other evening and they seemed very legit. I've never used them though. Just wondering...

Forget elite. They suck. Go to intrack tires. They do better work. They are located in queens. Google them up.

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